The most popular fiction genre is Fantasy; The most popular nonfiction genre is Memoir & Autobiography. read more The most popular time travel fiction is H. G. Wells’ The Time Machine, published in 1895. read more The most prolific crime author was John Creasey, who wrote over 600 books under 28 different pseudonyms. read more The most read book in the world is the Holy Bible. read more The most stolen book in the world is the Holy Bible, according to experts. read more The Nobel Prize in Literature has been awarded 115 times to 119 Nobel Prize laureates between 1901 and 2022. read more The number of U.S. Book stores has been declining over the past two decades. read more The oldest library in the world dates from the seventh century BC. Archaeologists uncovered 30,000 cuneiform tablets from the site of The Library of Ashurbanipal in Ninevah, Assyria (now in Iraq), established by Ashurbanipal, King of Assyria (669–631 BC). read more The only 15-letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is ‘uncopyrightable.’ read more The original title of Fahrenheit 451 was The Fireman. read more The original title of Leo Tolstoy’s masterpiece “War and Peace” was “The Year 1805”, the year his story begins. read more The original title of War and Peace was The Year 1805. read more «« « 32 33 34 35 36 » »»
The most popular fiction genre is Fantasy; The most popular nonfiction genre is Memoir & Autobiography. read more
The most prolific crime author was John Creasey, who wrote over 600 books under 28 different pseudonyms. read more
The Nobel Prize in Literature has been awarded 115 times to 119 Nobel Prize laureates between 1901 and 2022. read more
The oldest library in the world dates from the seventh century BC. Archaeologists uncovered 30,000 cuneiform tablets from the site of The Library of Ashurbanipal in Ninevah, Assyria (now in Iraq), established by Ashurbanipal, King of Assyria (669–631 BC). read more
The only 15-letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is ‘uncopyrightable.’ read more
The original title of Leo Tolstoy’s masterpiece “War and Peace” was “The Year 1805”, the year his story begins. read more
